JTO
Yes, kudos to the BoI president and those who gave evidence. My opinion is one should always ask who the lie is designed to protect. The field then narrows considerably.
HEART report (1997)
Download 7.2 Hercules Airworthiness Review Team Report 30.9.97.pdf from Sendspace.com - send big files the easy way
A Discussion of the "Principle Airworthiness Hazard to the Operation of the Aircraft"
Download 7.1 Hercules Airworthiness Review Team - Discussion Paper.pdf from Sendspace.com - send big files the easy way
One really has to read the ARTs in sequence, commencing with CHART (Aug 1992). Only then can you appreciate the sheer frustration evident in the Inspector of Flight Safety's words, as each report simply repeats the systemic failings of the previous ones. In 1999, CDP gave evidence to the Public Accounts Committee that the main criticism in CHART remained extant. So, in Haddon-Cave's "golden period", nowt was done.
The second paper may seem at first glance to be criticism of the HEART, but please remember that the ARTs' terms of reference were set by the Chief Engineer, who instructed them NOT to speak to anyone outside a narrow range of RAF offices; thus excluding Design Authorities and MoD's own specialists. Therefore, some of the conclusions in the report are very wrong, but they got close.